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Do you know of Grouleau ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Grouleau. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Grouleau.

Our sources for Grouleau (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Grouleau other than they indicate that Grouleau would be found somewhere in Alcona County, Michigan.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1895.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Grouleau ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Grouleau:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Grouleau - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Alcona County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Alcona County.

BamfieldsKilmaster
Batton 
Battons CrossingLodge
BeeverLott
ByersLoud Junction
  
cedarmereMarsh
Chevrier's CrossingMud Lake Junction
ChevriersMud Lake
Chicago Junction 
CodeNorth Branch
Crooked Lake Junction 
 Pritchards
Davidson 
 Ranger Spur
Five Channels JunctionRoe Lake
Flat RockRoy
 Russell
Glennie Station 
GramsSturgeon Point
Gronleau 
 Vaughn's
Handy 
HawesWest Greenbush
HenryWest Harrisville
  

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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